Models and packages use corporate business rules to define and group the data to be used for business reporting.
A model is a data structure containing imported data from one or more data sources. ACI users responsible for data modeling use Framework Manager to create models.
The data modeler creates a package that defines a subset of data that is relevant to an intended group of users. For example, the data modeler may create a package that marketing managers use for information related to market research. The package can then be distributed to report authors by publishing it to the portal. When you run a report, the result set is defined by the data retrieval information defined in the package.
For information about models and packages, see the Framework Manager User Guide.
